Vintage Thingies Thursdays!---Books

Suzanne at the Coloradolady is our host for Vintage Thingies Thursdays!

I have not participated in awhile. I took this pictures back in March and I am finally getting around to using them in a post!
This is how I have some of my older books displayed on the mantel
with my cute bear bookends holding them up. Don't you just love them?
Well, I do anyway.


Here is a page from the book on the far right.
It is called "Lone Star Tomboy" by Allyn Allen.
It was published in 1951 so it is older than me.
I think this book was in the family and it was given to me when I was old enough to read it.
I can remember reading this one several times.

This is a page from the yellow book in the middle.
Titled "Dangerous Island" by Helen Mather-Smith Mindlin.
It was published in 1956 and it was part of the Weekly Reader Children's Book Club.
Anyone remember the Weekly Reader fliers we used to get at school?
I loved them. It meant new books.
I was usually allowed to order at least one book.
And what fun when they came in!
This book belonged to a cousin, then my uncle who is only 6 years older than me and then it became my book. I also remember reading this one several times as well.

This is from the blue book on the far right.
"Mystery of the Gulls" by Phyllis A. Whitney.
This book was published in 1949. Wow! She has been writing books a long time.
I am not sure if she is still alive since I have not researched that yet.
This was the first book I read by her and enjoyed it so much I continued
to read many more as well.
And I still have not read all of her books yet.
I can never figure out "who dun it" before I get to the end of the book.
I get stumped everytime I read one of her books!
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The other books there include:
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"Black Beauty"-no publishing date, but it was my mother's.
Her handwriting is in the book and amazingly I have never read it.
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"Bambi's Children"-published in 1939 also was my mother's.
And also one I never read. Shame on me.....!
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"The Wind in The Willows"-originally copyrighted in 1908,1913.
However I don't know when this copy was printed but it was in my mother's childhood books.
And I have not read this one either, boy I am beginning to look bad.

These books I have sitting on the piano.
That bear is from London.
My son bought that when he was there in 1998 to march in the New Year's Day Parade.
The picture on top of the books is vintage.
It is of hubby and his parents taken in 1945.
On the left are senior portraits of my brothers and I.
Getting vintage I would say.
And on the right is hubby and I taken about 24 years ago.
And that little doily, I know it is hard to see, but it is also
quite old. Someone in hubby's family made it.
Could be his mother, or one of his grandmothers.
I have several of them around the house.
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Now about the books since that is what this post is really about!

You can probably tell the top one is "Winnie the Pooh".
Originally copyrighted in 1926, this one is the December 1943 printing.
I think it was my mother's sister's book first, then her brother's before it came into my hands.
The wear on it shows that it was read many times over the years.
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The middle book is "Bardelys The Magnificent" by Rafael Sabatini.
Copyrighted in 1905, it was given to my Grandmother I assume.
It has the date Dec. 3, 1926 in her handwriting with her maiden name and her address when she was living in Reedley, California.
Then she added her married name later and her address in Oakland, California.
Another book I have never read.
Oh dear, bad me again.
I am realizing I should read these treasures while I still can.
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And last but not least is the bottom book on the piano.
I have no idea what it says, because it is in Finnish.
That is my excuse for not reading this book and I am sticking to it!

My mother's side is Finnish and this was my grandmother's sister's book.
So that makes her my great-aunt. She was also my godmother.
I have written about her before as I have many of her things.
She had no children, so as her goddaughter things were passed on to me.
Some of the other relatives got some things too, especially her art work.
Anyway, back to the book, sorry for getting sidetracked there.

The book was printed in Finland. Two dates are there
1955 and 1958.
One is probably the copyright date and the other the printing date.
The inside shows that it is a children's book.
The picture above is probably about occupations.
The pictures make that kind of obvious.

This looks like a play or a skit.

Learning about the alphabet.

More about the alphabet. Hmmm.....

They don't have some of the letters we have in the English alphabet.

I sometimes wish I had learned more about the Finnish language

while my aunt/godmother was still alive.

She died in 2002 at the age of 90 and 10 months.

Thanks for visiting me.

Be sure to see Suzanne for more Vintage Thingies!

~Linnea~